Baby Shower

Our friends, Josh and Belinda, are having their first baby. Baby girl is due in August and I'm sure she will be adorable. Our ward had a baby shower for her this week and here are just a couple pictures.
What a cute cake.

Belinda and I right before she cute the cake.

The Rock Tenor

One of the things we love most about living in Philly is there is sooooo much to do. Jaron gets an email every week from funsavers.com and they tell you about all the deals going on in the area. He came home one night really excited about a concert downtown called "Rock Tenor". The creator of this show was one of the original creators of TSO (who we are huge fans of). So we decided to try it out.

We left a little early because you NEVER know how the traffic is going to be. Traffic was great so we arrived at the concert a little early. Jaron has been wanting me to try out a place called Cosi, so we decided to go and get some food.

Can you believe it? They have s'mores on the menu, it was so fun! And very delicious.

And they also had Italian Sodas...my FAVORITE!!

You can't really take pictures in the theater, but we snuck this one before it started. It was a fun night and we're definitely fans of the "Rock Tenor".

We'll miss you Annie...

We received the sad news last night that adorable little Annie had to be put to sleep. She was diagnosed with cancer a little over a month ago and was expected to live up to 9 more months, sadly she became sick very quickly and didn't make it through the weekend. Annie, we've loved having you in our house and we will miss you and your sweet personality. Bianca will miss her best puppy friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with Annie's family at this difficult time.
We love you Annie.

Sweet Land of Liberty

We decided to go to one of our favorite places this past weekend...Gettysburg. The only picture we took was of Battlefield Fries, we eat here every time we visit. Every year they do the Gettysburg Battle Re-enactment and it's so fun to go and see everyone dressed up, I love this little town.

We only spent the day in Gettysburg and came home that night so we could celebrate the 4th of July in our cute little town with our friends. We spent the day swimming at the Malstrom's and then met up with Mike and the boys that night for fireworks. The boys had these cool glowsticks that you could build into things. Aspen is wearing his baseball cap that was so cute.

Here's a picture of Mike with the boys, they were very excited to see the fireworks.

And here is Jaron and I waiting for the fun to start!

Happy 4th of July everyone.

You will be missed...

I was lucky enough to grow up in a household of music and dancing...because of this I have always been a fan of Michael Jackson. Whether you were a fan or not, you have to admit that he helped shape the music industry and was an amazing dancer and performer. What a sad day.

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UTAH

While we were in Utah we stayed with Jaron's younger brother Landon. He was nice enough to give us his bed, his car, whatever we needed. Thank you Landon, you're the best! Landon and his roommates have adopted a little dog named Bella. Jaron and I loved her, although she made us miss Bianca.
Bella and I snuggling after Jaron and I gave her a bath.
Jaron and Bella playing before we had to leave for the airport.
I have a "hair lady" I absolutely LOVE. Her name is Tanana Adams and she is amazing! Whenever we go to Utah I make sure to schedule an appointment with her. She wanted me to make sure and say that this picture was taken after she had been working an 8 hr. day. Funny story: so my mom really wanted me to schedule her an appointment with Tanaca while I was there and Tan was nice enough to fit her in. Then that morning my dad said he needed to get a hair cut also, so he came too. Then my little sis decided her hair looked horrible after a 12 hr. drive from Sammamish (they drove straight to the studio). So Tanaca's apprentice washed and styled her hair. Needless to say, my whole family (minus Craig) was in the studio. Jaron and Landon even came in for awhile and chatted. So funny! We seriously took up the whole waiting area of the studio, and we had 3 stylist working on us. Thanks Tanaca! You're awesome!

Pic of me and Jenn enjoying the sunshine.We were so happy to meet up with the Bischoff's. They moved over here a few years back and Lincoln and Jaron worked together. They ended up moving back to Utah and we've missed them! Lincoln just got excepted to MBA school in Chicago, so hopefully we'll get to go and visit them there.

I have more pics to put in this post, but I'm waiting for the pics from Landon. More to come soon...

Happy Birthday Papa

Jaron and I flew to Utah for Papa's 80th birthday party. Papa had his first heart attack at 42, and has since had 4 additional ones, so many of us never thought we'd be able to celebrate his 80th birthday...but we did and it was so much fun. The weekend started out with a dinner at Tucano's Brazilian Grill on Friday night, Saturday we had planned to go to Sundance and ride the chair lifts but bad weather shut that idea down and we ended up just hanging out at Papa and Shirley's house, Saturday night we had the "big party" where all the family was invited as well as close friends, and Sunday was the goodbye. Here are pictures from the weekend:

Mom and Aunt Steph after everyone had arrived for the weekend. They've been friends since Junior High and Steph ended up marrying my mom's older brother Fred.
This is my cousin Daniel aka Hone, jumping over the front bushes after Jaron bet him that he couldn't do it. I think he jumped 5 or 6 times so everyone could get pictures.
We realized this weekend that the Houston clan may rock at soccer and basketball, we are horrible at pool. I've never seen a game take so long!

Papa on a motor cycle.
Dad and Craig chatting at the big party.
Me, Jenn, Daniel and Bryan...not sure what I'm talking about but it must have been funny.
Here's mom and Aunt Sally. We all have our favorite cousins growing up that we will most likely talk about with our kids. Aunt Sally was definitely a Houston favorite.
Here's dad and Uncle Marty. Uncle Marty is also a Houston favorite cousin, he still goes on fishing trips with dad and Uncle Steve.
Not sure what we're doing, but here's Jenn and I. I just thought it was a funny picture.
Papa and his 2 sisters...Aunt Joyce, Papa, and Aunt Betty.
Here's Scott aka Bug...not sure what he's doing. Goofball!

My family is extremely into holidays and this is why. Take a look at Papa's face/reaction, he always has these faces when he opens presents. You should see him on Christmas! My mom is the same way and so am I. It sure makes it fun to buy presents for a person that reacts like this!!

Papa, his only daughter (my mom), and his only granddaughters (me and Jenn). Happy Birthday Papa, we love you!!